Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late, a pair of late-interaction embedding models. They support retrieval across text, images, and pages, share an embedding space across model sizes, and are publicly available on Hugging Face.

Rings AI and Perplexity announced a partnership making the Rings connector available in Perplexity Computer. The integration brings team relationship intelligence into Perplexity Computer.

Perplexity and American Express announced ready-to-use Skills for Perplexity Computer, curated for U.S. American Express Business Card Members with a Perplexity Enterprise subscription. The workflows cover tasks including tax preparation, cash-flow forecasting, and marketing campaign generation.

Crusoe announced a multi-year partnership with Perplexity to power Perplexity’s AI workloads on Crusoe Cloud. The agreement covers training frontier models on dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters and production inference through Crusoe Managed Inference; Crusoe will also adopt Perplexity Enterprise Pro and Max for its 1,800 employees.

Reports on August 24 said Nvidia was discussing an investment in Perplexity as part of a potential equity funding round that would value the company at more than $30 billion. The reports describe ongoing discussions rather than a completed transaction or a disclosed investment amount.

On August 18, 2026, Interfaze introduced OpenWebSearch, a router for web indexes including Google SERP, Exa, Brave, and Perplexity. The product standardizes API inputs and outputs across providers and offers centralized billing through a single REST-based interface.

Perplexity was publicly identified as working with Firebird to access high-performance AI infrastructure for its AI agent platform and answer engine. The relationship was disclosed in connection with Firebird’s launch of a large AI factory in Armenia.

Perplexity announced that it acquired Browserbase, a browser-infrastructure startup, to expand its browser and agent capabilities. The transaction was reported at roughly $120 million, although Perplexity did not disclose the purchase price.

Perplexity launched Comet for Android, describing it as the first agentic AI browser built for mobile. The Android version includes an in-pocket AI assistant, voice interaction across open tabs, tab-wide summarization, and an ad blocker.

The partnership connects Perplexity's answer engine with b.well's national health-data network so users can receive personalized, privacy-conscious answers informed by their medical records.

Perplexity introduced Computer, a system intended to unify its AI capabilities for end-to-end work including research, design, coding, deployment, and project management.

Perplexity secured commitments for $200 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation, according to Reuters reporting.